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Teamsters' Hoffa Draws Attention
From Candidates as Election Nears

By

Jeanne CummingsStaff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated July 27, 2000 2:32 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- Teamsters President James P. Hoffa says his trip to the Republican convention in Philadelphia next week is about congressional relations and not presidential politics. Of course, nobody believes him. And that's just fine with him.

For more than a year, Mr. Hoffa has dangled his union's endorsement and the energy of his 1.5 million members before Vice President Al Gore, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, Green Party nominee Ralph Nader, and even arch-conservative and likely Reform Party candidate Patrick Buchanan, without...